Places Ciaranofeire Wants to Go

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.